A good portion of the NEH matching grant is in the endowment. The NEH grant was to establish the Poetry Center at WCU. Also, a good number of the donors are local. Thus, the university and/or the foundation are obligated to keep the conference going. If the conference fails, the financial question will doubtless have to be settled by lawyers, which I assume will involve the DoJ as this was a federal grant.

So, I was... deselected as the judge of the Justice Prize due to, at best, administrative incompetence on their part. (They knew, or should have known, the job was mine from several avenues of communication that are very much in public at this point.) Attempts to rectify the situation with Jesse Waters have revealed a dismissive, condescending side to him.